An Awful Lot of Crashes

Reuters is reporting another "crashed" helicopter near Tikrit. Have you noticed that media is reporting these downings as crashes, and not as aircraft being "shot down"? Of course, they are getting their information from military sources, who aren't impartial, and would rather the public hear of them as if they were accidents, and not another example of the resistance on the ground in Iraq. After all, no one pays attention to helicopter crashes, but everyone pays attention to helicopters being shot down. I suggest we all pay attention to both, and consider a "crash" to be the military's short-hand for "shot down".